01 We have aspirations, expectations, desires, which, when frustrated, or delayed, (which is often the same thing), lead to anxiety and/or depression, alcoholism, drug addiction and a long list of symptoms associated with these types of responses to our situation which began as a combination of aspirations, expectations and desires. We would be better offContinue reading “June 07, 2022”
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June 06, 2022
01 I spend a lot of time looking out the window, though sitting in a canoe, or walking in the woods, or driving along the back roads are all equivalent ways of being occupied, allowing my thoughts to carry me wherever they go. It isn’t thinking. It is wandering among realizations and possibilities. Listening, looking,Continue reading “June 06, 2022”
June 05, 2022
01 What are the lies you have been told? Make a list over time. Keep it going to include all the lies, great and small, that have impacted your life. Burn the list. Bury the ashes. Turn the light around. Turning the light around transforms the lies by turning the light from the negative burdenContinue reading “June 05, 2022”
June 04, 2022
01 The most important thing to be right about is what response is called for here/now? The most important thing to do is the response that is called for. Moment by moment, in each situation as it arises. Jesus and the Buddha together could not do better than that. –0– 02 People want their circumstancesContinue reading “June 04, 2022”
June 03, 2022
01 My plan is to wait and see what happens, and then do what needs to be done. When it needs to be done. Where it needs to be done. How it needs to be done. No expectations. No agendas. No opinions. Sincerity. Integrity. Spontaneity. Emptiness. Stillness. Silence. Balance and Harmony. Original nature. Original virtues.Continue reading “June 03, 2022”
June 02, 2022
01 I look forward to seeing what I can do with the day, and with the future. To seeing what can happen, with my preferences guiding my choices, but with other considerations coming into play as well. Preferences are not willfully insistent “gotta haves or else.” They are just preferences, like hot coffee over warmContinue reading “June 02, 2022”
June 01, 2022
01 No expectation. No agenda. No opinion. Just seeing and doing what needs to be done about it. Whatever “it” may be. Go about your day like this, and note the difference it makes on you as you do it. Why live any other way? What does living any other way produce what you seeContinue reading “June 01, 2022”
June, 2022
Clarity comes with waiting for the mud to settle and the water to clear. And, it has to be the right kind of waiting– the kind of waiting that is just waiting. In the stillness and silence, and in the emptiness that is empty of everything, even the desire to be empty, like the emptinessContinue reading “June, 2022”
May 31, 2022
01 Trials and ordeals, Kid, trials and ordeals. We are forever coming up against them, as tests of our mettle and an invitation to grow up some more again. How well we rise to the occasion, occasion after occasion, tells the tale. The tale of growing up against our will– which is the prime requisiteContinue reading “May 31, 2022”
May 30, 2022
01 Our practice is working to maintain our balance and harmony while endeavoring to merge our original nature and the virtues that are ours from birth with the here/now of our circumstances in each situation as it arises. This is called being who we are, where we are, when we are, how we are, whileContinue reading “May 30, 2022”
May 29, 2022
01 Our problems disappear when we change our mind about them. Our problems are rarely as big as the problems we make them out to be. All of our suffering is self-imposed. Pain can be real and we can respond to it in ways that make it worse or better. The power of the responseContinue reading “May 29, 2022”
May 28, 2022
01 What is your philosophy of health? How healthy are you on a scale of 1-10? What practices do you follow in the service of a healthy life style? I recommend a 12-hour fast every day, from the last calorie you consume in the evening, to the first calorie you consume in the morning. IContinue reading “May 28, 2022”
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